Vintage car is stolen but then returned

On Thursday, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office was searching for a stolen vintage car that was taken from a home near Franklin while its owner was in jail.

But by Sunday, the car somehow found its way back.

“This vehicle magically appeared back in the vehicle owner’s driveway,” sheriff’s spokesman Doug Cox said in a news release.

A neighbor had seen two men loading the green 1953 Hudson Wasp onto a flatbed truck, according to a report. She thought the owner had sold it — until a woman who was feeding the owner’s cat reported the car missing.

Investigators had received information on where the car might be and were looking into it when the car was returned to the home on Mauxferry Road, Cox said.

The 79-year-old vehicle owner was in jail on charges of invasion of privacy and bond forfeiture, authorities said.